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I don't know offhand. You will have to test it out yourself. But you are probably right that the feature is not supported.
Commented yesterday on Drawing Compare - Update at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
Drawing Compare - Update
Update: The 2013 version is available from the Vault App Store. You want it, you got it. The Drawing Compare utility has been updated to include version to version compare, regardless of revision. Just select two entries in the History tab, right-click and select Compare Drawings. Click her...
Use PropertyService.AddPropertyDefinition to create a new property. Ex. FirstName
Use CustomEntityService.UpdateCustomEntityProperties to set the property value on a custom object. Ex. FirstName="John"
My Discussion Thread app has code example of creating Custom Object definition, property definitions, categories, etc. through code.
http://justonesandzeros.typepad.com/blog/2012/04/discussion-thread-app.html
You can also download the materials from an AU class I presented last year: CP1962: Programming Custom Objects with the Autodesk Vault API.
http://au.autodesk.com/au-online/classes-on-demand/class-catalog/2012/autodesk-vault-professional/programming-custom-objects-with-the-autodesk-vault-api
Commented yesterday on Vault is “Insanely Configurable” Too at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
Vault is “Insanely Configurable” Too
It looks like Brian Schanen is only blogging about PLM 360. So that leaves it to me to explain the Custom Entity feature in Vault Professional 2013. It’s probably better this way. Although you can create Custom Entities without API programming, it’s like setting off fireworks in the daytime...
No, because the new version is created at checkout time, not checkin time.
For example, you add a new file to vault. So there is only one version of the file. When you run the checkout command, v2 is immediately created. The checkout comment is on v2 and v1 has the comment that was provided when the file was initially added.
Commented 7 days ago on Properties in Vault 2011 - Part 4 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
Properties in Vault 2011 - Part 4
This posting is all about source code. Here you will find useful code snippets for dealing with properties. How to get the list of legal values for a property definition If you have a property definition that contains a list of legal values, you need to get the PropDefInfo object to read t...
Sorry, you can't edit historical comments.
I recommend making Comment a required property and putting a condition on the state change that Property Compliance must be true. That will prevent people from releasing files that have an empty comment.
Commented Nov 28, 2013 on Properties in Vault 2011 - Part 4 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
Properties in Vault 2011 - Part 4
This posting is all about source code. Here you will find useful code snippets for dealing with properties. How to get the list of legal values for a property definition If you have a property definition that contains a list of legal values, you need to get the PropDefInfo object to read t...
The TTP Project
There is a belief among cloud evangelists that the web interface is going to completely dominate all software. In the future, we will all be using the web browsers for everything. I, for one, hope that day never comes. There is something I just like about the feel of a desktop app. I’m used to things like right-clicking, drag-and-drop, keyboard shortcuts. The desktop app is something I’ve missed since moving to the PLM 360 team. With that in mind I decided to create (dun-dun-DUNNNN) The TTP Project. Continue reading
Posted Nov 26, 2013 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
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More on Paging
The basics of paging are already described up on the PLM 360 online help. But for today’s article, I’d like to go a bit deeper. I’ll also be answering some “why did they do it that way” style questions. Continue reading
Posted Nov 22, 2013 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
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Follow the link at the top of the article.
Commented Nov 20, 2013 on Errors and Restrictions at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
Errors and Restrictions
Update: A better version of the below code has been provied in another article. The new code gets both the error code and any restriction codes. Errors You are probably reading the error code incorrectly. I'm guessing that you are getting it from the Message text of an Exception that gets ...
Vault plug-ins and the App Manager
Previously Vault would only load plug-ins from one location. Starting in 2014, it now can load plug-ins from 3 locations. Two new locations were added to support the App Manager. So if you are creating an app for the Vault Exchange store, you can install to the locations that App Manager is used to working with. Continue reading
Posted Nov 15, 2013 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
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Was your server localhost? If so, it's not an accurate real-world test.
If you are using a different server, then my only guess is that the cost of the bulk data transfer outweighs the cost of opening the multiple HTTP connections.
It's rare for these cases to happen, but it's possible. For read operations, the HTTP cost is usually the most expensive part of an API call.
Commented Nov 15, 2013 on Coding for Performance - Array Functions at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
Coding for Performance - Array Functions
Welcome to a new ongoing series which will be focusing on writing optimized Vault code. In may cases, there are multiple ways to get data from the Vault server, but some ways may be quicker than others depending on your needs. There are many factors in Vault performance. Network speed, serve...
Sorry, no. GoToLocation is for commands only.
Commented Nov 11, 2013 on GoToLocation at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
GoToLocation
I can’t believe I forgot to add this to the “What’s New” page in the SDK documentation. New in the Vault 2013 API, you have the ability to jump to a different location when you custom command completes. This is a useful feature if, for example, your command creates a folder and you want the ...
Update: Oxygen Key Scope
The Oxygen team just added a feature that allows *.autodeskplm360.net as the scope on a Consumer Key. Previously you couldn’t have a wildcard in the front, which meant your key would only work on a specific PLM 360 tenant. Now you can use the *.autodeskplm360.net scope to write apps that work with all PLM 360 tenants. Of course, you can still scope things to a specific tenant if you want. A narrow scope is useful for things like in-house utilities and consulting projects. If you already have an Oxygen key, you can get the scope changed. Just make another key... Continue reading
Posted Nov 8, 2013 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
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If you change the job processor settings, you shouldn't have to re-submit any jobs.
If jobs have errors, it means they were run and something went wrong. The error usually has something to do with the operation (for example, Inventor crashed when trying to generate a the DWF). The job processor settings won't cause job failures.
Commented Nov 8, 2013 on Job Processor Command Line Tricks at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
Job Processor Command Line Tricks
We are working on multiple fronts to address many of the Job Processor issues that people are running into. For this post, I want to point out some command line features we added to Vault 2013. This feature won’t fix all problems, but it has many uses. You can read about the command line opt...
You are referring to .idw files on an Inventor assembly? Yes you can download those as part of the assembly download. One of the various AcquireFilesSettings allows you to specify the FileRelationshipGatheringSettings. If IncludeRelatedDocumentation is set to true, it should download the drawing files.
Commented Nov 6, 2013 on How to Acquire Files at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
How to Acquire Files
Downloading and checking-out is so last year. The fashionable Vault API developer acquires their files. It has more style and class. Also, DocumentService.DownloadFile and DocumentService.CheckoutFile are no more in the 2014 API. So that kind of forces the issue. Connection.FileManager....
.vcet.config Specification (v3)
A couple weeks ago, I blogged about the Loader Framework. One of the key components of that framework is the .vcet.config. It’s basically the file that tells the Loader what to load and how to load it. In the knowledgebase of the SDK is the specification for the XML syntax. It’s the v3 version of schema which was introduced in Vault 2014. Continue reading
Posted Nov 6, 2013 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
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You don't need to browse these options. You hard-code a option name and use that name to look up the data. So it's always a direct look-up.
Most people use their company name and product name in the option name to avoid collisions. For example: "Autodesk.deco.settings"
Commented Nov 4, 2013 on Storing Custom Data: Vault Options at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
Storing Custom Data: Vault Options
You are writing a Vault application, and you have data that doesn't fit nicely into a Vault object. Your data is not a File Property, or a Change Order, or a Folder, and so on. Your data is something else, and you need to store it somewhere. Welcome to Storing Custom Data, which will be an ...
The Defined API
When it comes to API/customization features, I think of things in terms of 3 buckets: Supported, Unsupported, and Forbidden. Let me explain what these things mean and how they apply to the PLM 360 API. Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2013 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
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API Versioning for PLM 360
The PLM 360 API, like most REST API’s, have a version component to their URLs. However, the meaning of the version changes from system to system. So let me explain what that version means for the PLM 360 API.... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2013 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
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Cloud Based APIs
Is using a cloud API really any different than any other client/server API? If you have developed with the Vault API, then you should already be familiar with many of the core concepts. Things like latency, user permissions and multi-user environments all still apply to the cloud. So is the cloud just a larger scale version of client/server programming?
No, there are some fundamental differences. Differences that need to be accounted for in your code. Continue reading
Posted Oct 30, 2013 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
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Features of the PLM 360 REST API
OK, great, there is an API for PLM 360. So what can one do with it? How is it different than scripting? What does REST even mean? Continue reading
Posted Oct 29, 2013 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
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PLM 360 REST API is Live
If you go to PLM 360 Online Help, you may notice a new section at the bottom. The “REST API v2 Reference” has everything you need to get started developing client applications for PLM 360. Continue reading
Posted Oct 28, 2013 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
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Yes! The new web client uses persistent IDs. So you can use the API to generate links to an entity in Vault.
Commented Oct 24, 2013 on Persistent IDs at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
Persistent IDs
If you are integrating Vault and another system, you will probably want to use Persistent IDs. Like the name implies, these identifiers are persisted and will not change in the future. Persistent IDs came out in Vault 2013 as an undocumented feature. For Vault 2014, it’s now being offic...
The Loader Framework
One interesting little API gem is the ExtensionLoader. Well, it’s interesting to me because I designed it, but maybe you will find it interesting too. I basically took the mechanism for loading plug-ins and made it public in the API. In theory, you can make use of this tool to load extensions of your own. Another use is interrogating the system to see which Vault plug-ins are available, where they live, what their settings are, and so on. Continue reading
Posted Oct 23, 2013 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
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No, it means I made a typo. Sorry, the app won't work with Vault Basic because Vault Basic still doesn't support plug-ins.
I'll fix the page.
Commented Oct 21, 2013 on Vault Web View 2014 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
Vault Web View 2014
I decided it was time to bring back Vault Web View. The concept is pretty simple. The app provides a tab with a web control in it. The web page shown is based on the selected object. (click image for full view) New for Vault 2014. You can now have multiple tabs. And you can determine ...
Logging in the Hard Way
Thanks to the new Filestore Server architecture, logging in to Vault 2014 takes up more steps than it did before. If you are using the WebServiceManager or Connection object, fell free to skip this article because the extra steps are performed automatically for you. But if you are making direct calls to the web service URLs, then keep reading. I’ll outline the new steps for logging in. Continue reading
Posted Oct 18, 2013 at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
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Sorry, it's not compatible with 2014.
The workaround is to go to the SDK folder under your client install location. Install the SDK, then go to the Util folder under the SDK's install location. There you will find an EXE version of the Lifecycle Event Editor.
Commented Oct 17, 2013 on Lifecycle Event Editor - The Plugin at It's All Just Ones and Zeros
Lifecycle Event Editor - The Plugin
I decided to fulfill my own request for this month. I didn’t have much time to spend writing a new app, so I decided to grab Lifecycle Event Editor code from the EXE and tweak it to run inside Vault Explorer. The plug-in itself has the exact same feature set as the exe. But if you are not fa...
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